St. Stanislaus Kostka School is proud to be a Leader in Me school. The Leader in Me is based on the work of the late Stephen Covey, a revolutionary in the business world and the mastermind behind the 7 Habits.
The Leader in Me is an innovative, school wide model that emphasizes a culture of student empowerment and helps unleash each child’s full potential. By applying The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, teachers and students utilize leadership principles that nurture the skills students need for success in the 21st century.
Since beginning The Leader in Me curriculum in the fall of 2010, our entire school community has been trained in the 7 habits of highly effective people, placing us among 1,000+ schools implementing this philosophy worldwide but the first Catholic school in the Chicagoland area. With these principles, we have created a school culture that believes success is more than content knowledge. To thrive within the challenges of the 21st century, children today are expected to have strong emotional IQs—people who can think creatively, respect diversity and life balance, take initiatives, solve problems, and set big goals and know how to reach them. In essence, our children need to be guided on how to take on the world, whether that world is big or small for them! Through living these habits, our students and their families understand leadership is more than a title or status. Leadership is striving to be your personal best and reaching primary greatness. This primary greatness is defined as a person’s integrity, work ethic, treatment of others, motives and level of initiative.
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Be sure to check our next addition for examples of The Leader in Me in action—or better yet, visit us on our Leadership Day scheduled for February 22nd!
